Important and Useful commands which are used for monitoring and managing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) on HP-UX machines are shown below in this post. You can also see the video tutorial on how to check the HP-UX system information for a IBM TSM. Remember that unlike monitoring IBM TSM in AIX, most of the commands are different and also the installation and device configuration methods are also bit different in HP-UX system. I recommend to check the requirements for TSM in HPUX before installing and configuring.

Useful Commands for managing IBM TSM Server in HP-UX

1) To Check the Filesystems and their size & information in HP-UX use ---- bdf command

3) To check the installed software packages in HPUX use swlist command. To check only if TSM is installed or not use ----- swlist |grep -i tivoli

4) To check the process of TSM server, run the following command ------ ps -ef | grep -i dsm

5) To check the available tape devices in HPUX, run the following command ---- ioscan -fnC tape. This command will scan the attached tape devices and list them out as shown below.

6) The above image shows the available tape drives list in Operating System level, to configure those tape drives in TSM you must go to /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin and run the ./autoconf command to configure the devices to be used in IBM TSM. You can also use ./tsmdlst command to list the tape drives WWN number and Serial numbers as shown below

You should use the TSM device names shown in the above screen for example (/dev/rmt/tsmmt4) while defining path for the tape drives to TSM Server.Also Read: TSM Administrator Daily routine tasks

7) To login into the IBM TSM V6.3 server, it is always recommended to login as the TSM instance userid and run the dsmadmc command as shown in the below screen.